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Title: Samsung invokes Alice to challenge two Apple patents Post by: HCK on July 05, 2014, 09:00:26 am Samsung invokes Alice to challenge two Apple patents
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Samsung Electronics has asked a court in California to hold invalid claims of two Apple patents in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that tightened standards for patentability.</p><p> A jury ordered Samsung in May to pay Apple about $119 million for infringing the iPhone maker’s patents. The two patents whose validity Samsung is now challenging had figured in the trial.</p><p> Some Samsung devices were found to infringe (http://www.macworld.com/article/2150770/jury-finds-samsung-infringed-some-apple-patents-must-pay-120m-in-damages.html) the “slide-to-unlock” patent, also known as the ’721 patent (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,046,721.PN.&OS=PN/8,046,721&RS=PN/8,046,721), which describes the motion on an unlock image on phone home screens to unlock a device.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2450980/samsung-invokes-alice-to-challenge-two-apple-patents.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Samsung invokes Alice to challenge two Apple patents (http://www.macworld.com/article/2450980/samsung-invokes-alice-to-challenge-two-apple-patents.html#tk.rss_all) |